As you well know, I have my own thoughts about Bill Ryan, and I have already espoused those higher up the thread (and elsewhere). But I will on the other hand also say this...: Bill Ryan has his own woo-woo factor, and I am convinced that there is a lot of misinformation that he himself actually believes in. So his enormous narcissism and his Machiavellianism notwithstanding, I believe that Bill Ryan, too, can get fooled by storytellers, and that he does actively believe in all of their woo-woo stories. This is something he has in common with Kerry Cassidy, albeit that she in turn has no discernment whatsoever, while
The Man With The Hat™ does have at least a modicum of that.
It was Bill Ryan who was intrigued by Corey's story, and who asked Christine to record that "impromptu interview" with Corey. Bill didn't have the intention of publishing it right away, but he asked Christine to drop in on Corey and record that conversation, for his (Bill's) own research purposes. He has been very clear about that on the open
Avalon forum. And so it was only after he had heard the tape that Christine brought back with her from her trip to Texas that Bill decided that this was something that needed to be published on the
Avalon forum — and he did ask for Corey's permission before he published it. But I think that, at the time, Bill himself would still have been under the impression that Corey was telling the truth.
The bottom line is that I don't think that Bill would have published Corey's story without that he himself believed in its veracity. Of course, what all happened after that is a whole other chapter, but — and this is my personal opinion — I think that the "alt media" celebrities that Bill has been offering a launchpad to have him just as fooled as they have their audience, and that Bill just wants to be a celebrity agent. He wants either himself as an individual or
Project Avalon as a whole to piggyback on the stardom of his "celebrities", but he's just as captivated by them as the other
Avalon members.
At least, that's my opinion. Like I said, Bill Ryan has his own woo-woo factor. He's a devout follower of L. Ron Hubbard, for crying out loud. That should tell anyone enough, don't you think? ;)
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